“If you’re going to smoke… I’m not your nanny. But if you put it out on the ground — that’s a problem.”

Mike presented at the WENA meeting in hopes of getting more sidewalk buttlers into the neighborhood. There are currently about 100 buttlers in downtown that have collected about 400,000 cigarette butts since 2014, according to Mike.

The sidewalk buttlers attach to existing infrastructure such as light posts or street sign poles. They are self-extinguishing and even have RFID tags that can be read by smart phones — this makes it easy to track the usage of the sidewalk butters.